The Catholic Church and the Protestant State: Nineteenth-Century Irish Realities Rafferty Oliver
The Catholic Church and the Protestant State: Nineteenth-Century Irish Realities Rafferty Oliver Beginning with Catholic attitudes to the Act of Union this work traces various elements in the…
Specifikacia The Catholic Church and the Protestant State: Nineteenth-Century Irish Realities Rafferty Oliver
The Catholic Church and the Protestant State: Nineteenth-Century Irish Realities Rafferty Oliver
Beginning with Catholic attitudes to the Act of Union this work traces various elements in the interrelationship between the Catholic Church and the state in Ireland in the 19th century. In the development of its infrastructure, facilitating as it did along with other factors the 'devotional revolution', the church was in many ways dependent upon Protestant financial help. Catholicism's role in the Protestant state for most of the century was tempered and conditioned by its relationship with the various Protestant churches in the country.
Although the religion of the vast majority of the Irish people Catholicism, in its institutional aspect, felt itself to be undervalued and underappreciated by the Protestant state. The ironies and complexities of this situation is a consistent theme in these essays. Its dealings with the state where tempered by its relative poverty and it's dependence